No. 13 Cal Hosts Arizona Teams at Hellman

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BERKELEY – Thirteenth-ranked California returns to the Hellman Tennis Complex to host Pac-12 Conference matches against No. 19 Arizona State and No. 29 Arizona. The 10-4 Golden Bears (3-0 in the Pac-12) take on the Sun Devils (16-2, 3-0 Pac-12) at 1:30 p.m. on Friday and play the Wildcats (14-1, 3-0 Pac-12) at noon on Saturday.

Former NCAA doubles champion and All-American Amanda Augustus is in her seventh season as head coach at her alma mater

Associate head coach Cordell Ho, another Cal alum, is in his 17th season on the Cal women’s staff

Jan Brogan, who retired in 2007 after serving 29 years as the Golden Bears’ head coach, is Cal’s volunteer assistant coach

Scouting the Sun Devils

Arizona State has won 10 consecutive dual matches

Stephanie Vlad is ranked 60th in singles

Desirae Krawczyk is at No. 81 in singles

The doubles team of Krawczyk and Kassidy Jump is ranked 56th

ASU’s Sheila McInerney is in her 30th year as head coach

Scouting the Wildcats

Arizona, which plays at Stanford on Friday, has won seven straight dual matches

Lacey Smyth is ranked 95th in singles

Kim Stubbe is ranked 100th

Vicky Maes is in her 13th year as head coach of Arizona

Last Time

Zsofi Susanyi lost just one game en route to winning her singles match and securing No. 16 California’s 7-0 victory over No. 64 Colorado on March 23 indoors at the Rocky Mountain Tennis Center. Susanyi, a junior ranked 13th in singles, beat the Buffaloes’ Carla Manzi Tenorio, 6-1, 6-0, on court three.

With their fourth consecutive win, the Golden Bears improved their record to 10-4 (3-0 in the Pac-12). Colorado fell to 7-9 (0-5 Pac-12).

The teams played indoors due to inclement weather – it was about 32 degrees with snow and ice on the ground – in the Boulder area.

Cal clinched the doubles point when the team of senior Kelly Chui and sophomore Klara Fabikova beat CU’s Dhany Quevedo/Vitaliya Alkhovik, 8-2, on court three. Freshmen Maegan Manasse and Denise Starr got the first win with an 8-4 result over Julyette Steur/Ashley Tiefel on court one.

The Bears did not lose a set on the day, as Cal quickly clinched the overall match in singles. Starr, ranked 26th, beat Steur, 6-1, 6-3, on court one, Schutting, ranked 30th, defeated Winde Janssens, 7-5, 6-2, on court two and Susanyi posted her victory to make the overall score 4-0.

The teams played out the rest of the matches, with Fabikova beating Tiefel, 6-1, 6-2, on court four, Manasse, ranked 108th, surpassing Quevedo, 6-0, 6-3, on court five and senior Alice Duranteau defeating Alkhovik, 6-2, 6-3, on court six.

Starr bounced back in singles against the Buffs after dropping her court-one match at Utah.

Next Time

Cal hosts No. 12 USC on April 4 and No. 2 UCLA on April 5 at the Hellman Tennis Complex.